Tom Lowenthal joins CPJ as first staff technologist

Journalism is increasingly
mediated by the same digital tools to which we entrust the rest of our lives. In
keeping with CPJ's mission to enable and protect journalists wherever they find
themselves under threat, we are pleased to announce the hire of Tom Lowenthal, our first staff technologist.

Tom is a technologist and
activist with a special interest operational security and surveillance
self-defense. A strong believer in individual privacy and personal freedom, Tom
most recently worked as project coordinator at the Tor
Project and before that as a privacy strategist at Mozilla.
He earned his B.A. in Political Theory, with minors in Computer Science and in
Technology Policy, from Princeton University. Tom is also a journalist, having written forArs Technica.

Tom will work with me as
part of CPJ's Internet program, but he will also bring his technical expertise to
bear across the organization. Among Tom's responsibilities will be security
training for journalists, research into emerging digital threats, and the
communication of sophisticated technology policy information to the news media,
government officials, the general public, and tech companies worldwide.

We are excited to welcome
Tom to the team.

San Francisco-based CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Geoffrey King works to protect the digital rights of journalists worldwide. A constitutional lawyer by training, King also teaches courses on digital privacy law, as well as the intersection of media and social change, both at UC Berkeley. Follow him on Twitter at @CPJInternet. His public GPG encryption key can be found here.